Kaustav Banerjee is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at UC Santa Barbara. Initially trained as a physicist, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. His current research focuses on the physics, technology and applications of low-dimensional materials such as graphene and other 2D materials for next-generation green electronics, photonics and bioelectronics. Prof. Banerjee’s technical contributions have been recognized with numerous awards and honors including the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, presented to him in 2011 by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, for his outstanding contributions to nanoelectronics. Prof. Banerjee is a Fellow of IEEE and the American Physical Society, and the recipient of the2015 Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, one of the highest-level awards given by IEEE.